Sorry to dig up an old post, but I just read the Gamespot review for Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree and thought of this topic while reading the review. Two things jumped out at me as I looked at their 7.3 rating for the game:
- The only negative in the whole review was that you had to pass the remote between players in most of the multiplayer games.
- The reviewer said you only hear a female voice from the remote which is completely false
So for the first part, the only negative thing in that whole review was that you have to pass the remote in most of the multiplayer modes (not even all of them), nothing else. The reviewer touched on everything else from graphics, sound, and gameplay and had only good things to say about the game. So why would a game with only one minor negative thing (that's actually just a personal preference for players) get a 7.3 rating? That's the question of the day.
The second thing that jumped out at me was the fact the reviewer said "A fair amount of speech comes out of the Wii speaker, but most of it is just encouragement from a female voice that eggs you on as you play." If anyone reading this has played the game more than once you'll quickly find that their are multiple voices, male and female. Seriously, all you have to do is turn it off and then turn it back on and you'll more than likely hear another voice. So why does this matter? Because 1) it makes me think the reviewer played through a few of the practice modes and did the test once and 2) makes me think they didn't even bother with the multiplayer (or at least with more than one person) since the voice comes through the remotes on the game type that uses more than one remote.
So yay, a reviewer game a game a low score even though he found only one minor negative and it looks like he barely even played it. Way to go Gamespot, and people wonder why I hate reviewers.
